Race 2 Win: Nextel All-Star Challenge

Nextel Cup Series

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Nextel All-Star Challenge - Eligible Drivers

GREG BIFFLE

Best finish: 14th (2005).

Finished fifth in the 2003 NEXTEL Open.

KURT BUSCH

Three top-seven finishes recorded for Roush Racing.

First NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge competing with Penske Racing.

KYLE BUSCH

First NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge event.

If he wins, he will become the youngest driver in history to win the event.

2005 was his first NEXTEL Open. Finished fourth.

DALE EARNHARDT JR.

2000 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Recorded five top-10 finishes in six events.

CARL EDWARDS

2005 was Edwards’ first NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge.

Finished 15th after being involved in an accident.

JEFF GORDON

Three-time NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner (1995, 1997, 2001).

Won the 1994 NEXTEL Open.

KEVIN HARVICK

Best finish: seventh (2003).

Recorded two top-10 finishes in four races.

DALE JARRETT

Best finish: second (2000, 2001).

Finished in the top 10 seven out of 14 races.

JIMMIE JOHNSON

2003 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Finished in the top five three out of four races.

KASEY KAHNE

Best finish: seventh (2004).

MATT KENSETH

2004 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Three top-six finishes in a row.

BOBBY LABONTE

Best finish: second (1997, 1998).

Recorded four top-five finishes and six top-10 finishes.

TERRY LABONTE

Two-time NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner (1988, 1999).

Six top-five finishes and nine top-10 finishes in 20 years of competing in the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge.

MARK MARTIN

2005 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Recorded two wins (1998, 2005), four top-five finishes and six top-10 finishes in 16 races.

JEREMY MAYFIELD

Best finish: fifth (1999)

Won the NEXTEL Open twice (1998, 2002).

JAMIE McMURRAY

Second time racing for the $1 million purse; this year piloting a Roush Racing car.

Best finish: third in the 2004 NEXTEL Open.

RYAN NEWMAN

2002 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Runner-up in 2004 as he battled Matt Kenseth for the win at the checkered flag.

TONY STEWART

Best finish: second (1999).

Recorded two third-place finishes in seven races.

MICHAEL WALTRIP

1996 NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge winner.

Recorded three top-five finishes and five top-10 finishes over a course of 13 years.

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